http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/8/1179?etoc
The Treatment Relationship in Peer-Based and Regular Case Management for
Clients With Severe Mental Illness

CONCLUSIONS: Early in treatment, peer providers may possess distinctive
skills in communicating positive regard, understanding, and acceptance to
clients and a facility for increasing treatment participation among the most
disengaged, leading to greater motivation for further treatment and use of
peer-based community services. Findings strongly suggest that peer providers
serve a valued role in quickly forging therapeutic connections with persons
typically considered to be among the most alienated from the health care
service system.


"People Who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions"